Black

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Platform: PS2

Category: Shooter

Rating Info

Release Date: 24/02/2006

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Number of Players: 1

Black Description

BLACK is the explosive first-person shooter from the award-winning Criterion studio, makers of the hit Burnout series. The game pays homage to every adrenaline-fueled Hollywood blockbuster to deliver hours of bang, boom, and rat-a-tat-tat. Bullets pulverise plaster and splinter boards; bigger ammo breaks down doors and shears concrete from buildings in fat chunks. When you finish a level, it'll look like a tornado hit it. This is no simulation-based, covert action shooter—this is an intense action gunner set to revolutionise video game shooting, squeezing out more power than anything before. Overt Action: BLACK operatives do not hide in shadows or sneak behind walls waiting for the right time to engage their foe - they destroy the wall, the enemy, and anything else that gets in their way. The Guns Are the Stars: An explosive arsenal of bleeding-edge weaponry lets you experience the awe-inspiring power of the world's most exotic lethal firepower. If You Can See It, You Can Shoot It: Reduce cities to rubble in a world where virtually nothing is impervious to your bullets. Get Your Blood Pumping: Adrenaline is your friend. Visceral, destructive action sucks you deep into the gameplay as you blaze and blast your own path through open-ended environments. BLACK-Style Kills: Use destructible worlds and explosive objects to take out enemies in cover, frag multiple enemies at once, or just wreak massive destruction for its own sake.

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Reviewed by: gamemaster	Date: 22/02/2006	Rating:
only played it on a demo but OMFG it is the mother of all FPS games superb graphics, brilliant weapons and ...... oh this is just the best, the FPS of your dreams

Reviewed by: Johnboy	Date: 27/03/2006	Rating:
The best FPS on the PS2,great graphics and enymy AI,loved it.

Reviewed by: Mikalee	Date: 26/04/2006	Rating:
This is a quality FPS, but it takes some getting used to, as they have slowed the horizontal controls to make it easier to aim.

Reviewed by: hobbesthetiger	Date: 11/07/2006	Rating:
It's a very decent game but the combination of a lack of checkpoints and lengthy missions can get very annoying. The 'shoot everything' motif is a little misleading as well. There aren't that many instances where this can be done too much real effect and it doesn't have that much influence on the game. Overall it is one of the better FPS but 1 or 2 little things stop it from being really amazing.

Reviewed by: hulkster	Date: 16/03/2006	Rating:
best fps ever played

Reviewed by: chrisno21	Date: 13/03/2006	Rating:
3/5 - why what happened? Black is an interesting title which doesn't do a lot wrong. However the whole destroy everything aspect is very over-hyped and barely in existence as far as game mechanics go - sure stuff blows up and walls can be destroyed - but - most walls and most scenery stays the same way and don't blow up. Shooting stuff to fall on people - yeah maybe once in the entire game is this even possible, so basically all this aspect does is cause slowdown. The game itself is very short, only 8 levels ranging form 20mins to 60mins each, with no saving mid level and very few checkpoints which can annoy on some of the more annoying levels. Some enemies need about five headshots to die and this can be very difficult if you're surrounded by enemies with RPGs being fired at you. You cannot jump - so what? - well you left a medback on the ledge above its only half a foot up and you can see it but tough - you cannot go back. Worth a rent as once completed there is no incentive to play it again.

Features

The Best Shooting - The most destructive gun fights ever seen in a video game. Everything in the environment is affected by gunfire.

Signature Kills - Use the environment as a weapon. Make tactical use of destructive environments. Take out enemies in cover, multiple enemies at once, or just for the thrill of seeing massive destruction.

Awesome Firepower - The biggest, best guns inspired by weapons from classic Hollywood action movies like The Matrix, Terminator 2 and Predator.

Four Guns are Better than One - Added firepower and communication heighten the intensity of battle with the player supported by three highly trained specialists.

Stunt Man Enemies - Interesting, dynamic targets surrounded by explosive debris.

Trigger Time - The largest body count of any video game. 5 times the number of enemies per level than conventional action games ensures relentless action

Incredible technology - Criterion Games, the award-winning creators of the Burnout series, will squeeze more performance out of the Playstation 2 and Xbox hardware than ever before.

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